i make pad thai about every 6 weeks or so.� my last batch was documented here.� i take�this ritual�pretty seriously and i like to think that�my version�is by far the best and most authentic in town, which really under the circumstances of where i�live is no huge accomplishment. but tonight i had a very special […]
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eating down the house.� continued… i read a fair few blogs and am constantly inspired by these people who understand food so well.� it certainly makes cooking easier on me.� tonight i riffed off one of my all-time fave blogs, smitten kitchen and enlisted a touch of help from minimally invasive (orange zest/pimenton = wow). […]
Tags: greens · pork · potatoes
in keeping with my ‘eating down the house‘ challenge, the only�ingredient that�i needed�for�last night’s�dinner was�some cream, something that i rarely if ever buy or cook with -�if only out of a healthy dose of fear.� but i had perused my freezer, fridge and pantry and had a�pretty solid�idea of what direction i’d be heading.��i reached […]
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Tags: mushrooms · pasta · pork
tonight amongst many true culinary crowd pleasing delights i ate pig testicles and they were kinda really ok seriously… fyi: nothing like chicken… enough said.
3 soups in one day?� ambitious?� perhaps.� but i was hell bent on getting through this mountain of produce that was somehow all mine.� and soups are a good way to go when faced with an overbearing bounty.� i opted first for the bittman pear zucchini, then a riff off an aubergine soup i’d seen […]
Tags: soup · vegetables
i buy food. often. esoteric ingredients are my game. a real chef would love my pantry but i’m just a mere wannabe. yet i continue to believe that if i own all these potential elements of a dish that i will be able to transform my meals into something extraordinary. you see, when it comes to cooking, i’m not big on technique. […]
Tags: farro · greens · seafood
the long title is really more of a substitution for the lack of photograph.� due to a technical glitch which i neither understand nor care to discuss, i am as devastated as a food blogger could be.� the most wonderful dinner – sans picture.� so the following description is the equivalent of me saying, ‘ok, […]
